Chinese Dietary Therapy is based on the energetic principles to encourage balance within the body, free disease, and uplift energy through a diet that mirrors the constitution of each patient. Asian Dietary Therapy is a complex practice that identifies and treats the underlying patterns of imbalance. The key to creating an optimal diet and a lifestyle change that will stick is through dietary therapy that factors in the conditions that patients suffer from, rate of their metabolism, climate they live in, their current state of emotional and physical health and well-being, and family history of illness and good health.

Furthermore, as individuals we all have different health patterns. Some patients are blessed with good health and minimal illness where others suffer from illness frequently. These are all factors I consider when creating a change in dietary therapy that will bring a quality of life to each patient.

I will strategically choose foods based on the patients’ pathologies and will further determine whether the patient suffers from deficiencies and or excess the ultimately results in the determined diagnosis.

Deficient conditions call for TONICS…

TonicsThese are foods and herbs that rebuild the foundational components of the body. Tonics are excellent for deficiencies in the body and are used to conquer weakness, fatigue, and ultimate disharmony.

The Decline of Essence S&S may include: loss of teeth, loss of hair, graying of hair, deterioration of the mind and body due to old age.

Essence Tonic Foods may be recommended:

Foods that promotes movementThese are foods that encourage blockages to dissolve and be dismissed from the body. Blockages result in stagnation. Stagnation prohibits movement of Qi and Blood to run the length of the body and ultimately results in excess and deficiencies in the interior and exterior spaces of the whole body.Remember any kind of pain is due to stagnation.

Foods that eliminate windThese are foods that work wonders when you have just caught the flu or the common cold. When you catch a cold and or progress to the flu you might notice that your body temperature will vary. You may feel a little warm, warmer, hot, or perhaps on the colder side of things. The thermal nature of flu and cold is very important when evaluating and sculpting a dietary plan to assist you through your illness.S&S of Wind may include; Pain or illness that travels to different areas of the body.

Wind Eliminating Foods may be recommended:

Foods that eliminate DampThese are foods that move and drain the sense of heaviness and fullness from the body. Picture this… placing raw dough in a baking dish and watching it cook for a certain duration of time.. you will notice the dough expanding, rising and filling the dish to its fullest potential. Well, take this dough that is currently cooking and place it in your body during the cooking process. Could you imagine how it would feel to have raw dough rising and expanding in your body attempting to fill every crevice and avenue of your living body? I could only imagine the sense of heaviness and fullness a person would feel. Can you?S&S of Damp accumulation may include: Sense of heaviness, fullness, sluggishness, and tiredness.

Damp Eliminating Foods may be recommended:

Foods that eliminate drynessThese are foods that bring moisture to the body. Bringing moisture to the body encourages proper bodily functions, encourages the excretion of impuritiesS&S of Dryness may include; withered skin, feeling of dryness.